S20 Mr. Howard's Meteorological Journal, [ A p r i l, 1 821 , 



REMARKS. 



Second Month.'^\^ 2; Fine. 3. Fine: cloudy. 4. Overcast. 5. Fine: hoar frost in the 

 moming. 6. Hoarfrost. 7. Hoarfrost: very fine morning : lunar corona at night. 

 8. Hoarfrost; fine. 9. Hoarfrost: cloudy: fine. 10. Cloudy. II. Cloudy: fine 

 at intervals. 19 — 15. Cloudy. 16. Lunar corona. 17- Cloudy. 18. Fine: a 

 shower about 10, p.m. 19. Fine. 20. Hoar frost: a shower in the evening. 

 21. Cirrocumtilut and Cirroatratus streaked, like an agate. 22. Hoar frost. 

 23,24. Hoarfrost: foggy. 25. Cloudy. 26. Cloudy: bleak. 2J, Very fine mora, 

 ing. 28. Snowy. 



RESUJiTS. . . . 



€ Winds: NE, 6; E, 1 ; SE, 4 ; S, 1^^W,_3; W, 3 ; NW, 8 ; Var. 2. 



]$armneter : Mean height 



Forthemonth 30*272 inches. 



For the lunar period, ending the 25th 30-336 



For 14 days, ending the 5th (moon south) , . . . 30-404 



For 1 3 days, ending the 1 8th (moon north) 30-395 



Thermometer: Mean height vm- 



Forthemonth ^^..i^V 34-2140 



For the lunar period. , 35-5 



For 29 days, the sun in Aquarius 36-741 



Evaporation 1-07 in. 



Rain 0-31 



3Ie|m of hygrometer 70° 



The barometer, which has ranged very high most part of this winter, has twice risen 

 90 in the last and present month as probably to reach the upper extremity of the scale 

 in many instruments, as it did in one of those which we observed. 



^•^j The Comet, which is now visible, was well seen at Tottenham by my brother 

 and other persons as early as the evening of the 23d; and on the 27 th, the Zodiacal 

 Light was also distinctly observed there. 



Laboratory^ Stratford^ Third Months 17, 188U R. HOWARD. 



